Guide to Healthy Eyes : Seeing Well, Looking Good, Feeling Great (Reprint)

Contents: Preface. 1. Keep your eyes healthy: prevent blindness. 2. How the eye works?: Digital camera!/Sudesh Arya. 3. Errors of vision: trends in their correction. 4. Normal vision low vision/S.K. Chopra. 5. Spectacles and contact lenses. 6. Children s eye special: detect defects early, prevent problems/K.P. Chaudhary and Rajeev Tuli. 7. Vision correction with laser technology: latest but not ultimate. 8. The red eye: denotes a host of eye problems/D.C. Bansal. 9. Trends in Glaucoma (Kala Motia) management: need not bring darkness, if cared. 10. Cataract: graying of eyes with age/Jagat Ram. 11. Harmful sun rays and fireworks: eye needs protection against both. 12. Flashes and floaters: retinal tears and retinal degenerations/Lingam Gopal. 13. Eye lasers: a great leap forward. 14. Fugo blade: immense possibilities to bring light/Daljit Singh. 15. Take eye injuries seriously: minor or major. 16. Diabetic retinopathy: understanding the blind disease/Ashish Mahobia, Manish Nagpal, Kamal Nagpal and P.N. Nagpal. 17. Allergy in the eye: the solution. 18. Colour blindness: can you be colourless from birth to death?/Sunandan Sood. 19. Experiences in dry eye management: early detection can be rewarding. 20. The ageing eye: grow older gracefully with good vision. 21. Twitching of eyelids: can it be a big headache?/Rajiv Tuli and Anil Chauhan. 22. First aid: don t over-do it in the first instance/Ashok Sharma. 23. Women s eye special: men are from Mars, women are from Venus. 24. Squint can be corrected: it is not a curse/Rohit Grover. Frequently asked questions (FAQs): Frequently asked questions (FAQs). Appendices. Photographs. Index. "Eyes are the most precious gift Lord has bestowed on us all. Eyes have unlimited potential to capture the beauty of nature and serve the owner for lifetime. Healthy eyes are vital for achieving good vision. To ensure health of our eyes, a few simple facts go a long way in preventing serious vision threatening problems. This book covers basic facts about the functioning of eye, normal and abnormal vision and color vision, refractive errors and their correction with spectacles, contact lenses, and surgical modalities including lasers. It has covered most commonly encountered eye problems such as red eyes, allergic eye diseases, eye injuries, cataract (clouding of the crystalline lens), retinal disorders, and has highlighted prevention of eye diseases. The eye problems affecting different age groups such as children, adults and ageing individuals are discussed in detail. The questions and their answers are provided on various eye diseases, which will be very useful to readers. This book will be immensely beneficial to general public, students, parents, teachers and all professionals including medical doctors. The readers will enjoy reading and benefit from the knowledge contained in this book." (jacket).…